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How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Friday March 07, 2008 08:21 by Oscar   text 3 comments (last - thursday march 13, 2008 09:06)
Hugh Geraghty Memorial Lecture

‘Celtic Communists and British Imperialists’

(Scottish Nationalist Encounters with Ireland)

By Bob Purdie

Date: Wednesday 12th March 2008
Venue: Liberty Hall
Time: 8.00p.m.

Run in conjunction with the Cle Club
Lecture will be followed by the CLE CLUB Folk/ Traditional Music Session at 9-30 p.m.

Admission Fee to Lecture/Session €5-00 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 06, 2008 16:11 by larry sweeney
larry sweeneys land has been illegally embargoed for 6 yrs because of ill founded proceedings in cavan circuit court. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Thursday March 06, 2008 14:09 by PaddyK2   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 11:28)
The Galway One World Centre’s monthly debate series continues next Tuesday 11th March at 6.30.Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters.is month’s topic concerns one of the most urgent problems facing global society -ensuring access to safe drinking water. Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters. Last years cryptosporidium crisis in Galway highlighted that water supply is an issue with universal effects. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday March 06, 2008 12:46 by Grace Walsh
We’re delighted to announce the official launch of a collection of photography entitled “24 glances”, which includes pictures taken by young people from VSI's Teenage Programme on the theme of Immigration.

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international / sci-tech / other press Thursday March 06, 2008 00:44 by Pollytix   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 12:57)
'The problem for the senior vice-president of technology at Phorm, an Aim-listed company which recently tied up a deal with the UK's three biggest internet service providers - BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, who between them have more than 10 million customers - is that it's not the privacy groups who he really needs to convince. It's the millions of people whose services will be affected by Phorm's scheme, because some are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of their privacy through Phorm's intention to categorise all of their web-surfing habits in order to target online ads at them.' read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 18:46 by Over The Edge
Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higgins
Intermediate Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 17:35 by The Oh-Aissieux   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 30, 2008 15:50)
The Narrative Arts Club is proud to present an evening of storytelling in German, with the Algerian storyteller Naceur Charles Aceval.

Naceur Charles Aceval will tell tales from his soon-to-be-published novel, The Man Who Did Not Want To Die, in German.
Naceur Charles Aceval erzählt Geschichten aus seinem Märchen-Roman "Der Mann, der nicht sterben wollte".

Wednesday 12 March from 8pm (doors 7.30pm).
Mittwoch, 12. März 2008, 20:00 Uhr (Einlaß: 19:30 Uhr)
Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2
Admission EUR 5. Concessions EUR 2.
Eintritt: 5,- Euro / 2.- Euro (Schüler, Studenten) read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 16:38 by Galway Socialist   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 16, 2008 00:43)
Upstairs, Richardson's bar Eyre Square, 1-4.30pm, Saturday 8th March

1pm: Iraq, 5 years on. How can the warmongers be defeated?

3pm: After Castro... Which way forward for Cuba and Latin America?

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kerry / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 14:46 by sean moraghan
Palestinian speaker Nidal Sardek will talk, informally, about the
different factions among the Palestinian resistance groups and the
history of the conflict.

VENUE: Imperial Hotel Bar, basement of, darkest part of, THURSDAY 6
March @ 7.30

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galway / eu / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 12:53 by Sarah   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 10:43)

Andy Storey - UCD Lecturer in Development Studies and board member of the Afri NGO will speak at a public meeting in the Harbour Hotel at 7.30 on the 19th of March. Mr Storey’s particular areas of expertise are the implications of the Lisbon Treaty with regard to international trade and militarisation of the EU. Andy has formerly held positions with Trocaire both in Rwanda and as a policy researcher.

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galway / environment / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 12:46 by Sarah Galway One World Centre
‘Water Rights and Wrongs’

The Galway One World Centre’s monthly debate series continues next Tuesday 11th March at 6.30.Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters.is month’s topic concerns one of the most urgent problems facing global society -ensuring access to safe drinking water. Although water is absolutely fundamental for life to exist, over 1 billion people in the world lack safe access to clean water and 25 million people in the world die every year as a result of contaminated waters. Last years cryptosporidium crisis in Galway highlighted that water supply is an issue with universal effects.

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international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday March 05, 2008 09:35 by Shocked
The Department issued a statement today confirming the employee's death on the premises after a newspaper reported it
yesterday morning. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday March 05, 2008 00:40 by Paul McAndrew
4pm,
The Cornerhouse Pub,
Coburg St,
informal get together over coffee or a pint,
for Pagans and Heathens of all traditions and of none

same time and venue on the 2nd Sunday of every month

look for the stag candleholder on the table :) read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday March 04, 2008 22:46 by solidarity
Picket in support of sacked migrant worker in Belfast City Centre read full story / add a comment
kildare / animal rights / event notice Tuesday March 04, 2008 21:07 by Ciaran Long   text 5 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 14:45)
Irish greyhound killers’ annual awards
Important demonstration
Killashee House Hotel, Naas, near Dublin
Easter Sunday, March 23rd, 5.30pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Tuesday March 04, 2008 19:50 by Mags
Dublin City Libraries with Font International Literary Agency present a creative writing workshop for migrants.

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international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday March 04, 2008 11:40 by Drew
The latest edition of THE RED STAR, Nepal's National Magazine is now available on line.

There are articles on

the upcoming election,

Indian Expansionism, read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday March 04, 2008 11:18 by phats   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 17, 2008 21:57)
Foreign affairs minister Dermot Ahern has announced that the government is to enact legislation to stop the National Pension Reserve Fund from being used to invest in cluster bomb manufacturers. Irish taxpayers have nearly €70 million worth of shares in companies that produce cluster bombs as a result of the government's investment policy. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 04, 2008 09:13 by OZ   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 23:24)
Satirical clip (very funny) on Peter Garrett former lead singer of radical rock group "Midnight Oil now Australian government minister does yet another backflip on U.S. bases, uranium etc etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsJCR6w1Vg
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dublin / eu / event notice Monday March 03, 2008 14:21 by Lisbon no thanks
Dublin MEPs Gay Mitchell and Mary Lou McDonald will debate the Lisbon Treaty at 12.30pm on Tuesday March 4th. The meeting, organised by the Forum on Europe, takes place at Liberty Hall. read full story / add a comment
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